Holger Meins

Holger Meins (26 October 1941-9 November 1974) was a German cinematography student and Red Army Faction member who is best-known for his fatal hunger strike in 1974 while he was in prison.

Biography
Holger Meins was born on 26 October 1941 in Hamburg, Nazi Germany, and he studied cinematography before being drawn into the revolutionary struggle of the Red Army Faction. On 1 June 1972, he was arrested with Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe in a Frankfurt storage garage where they made bombs, and he decided to launch a hunger strike along with several other RAF prisoners. He died during the hunger strike on 9 November 1974.